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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

hostage situation

Russian security forces in Surovkino, Volgograd region, Russia on August 23, 2024. (X screenshot)
August 23, 2024, 8:45 pm
Prisoners in Russia shot by snipers after killing 4 guards, pledging fealty to ISIS
Group of 4 inmates takes 12 hostages, fatally stabs guards before eventually being ‘neutralized’ by Russian forces
By AP
Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza march to call for their release, in Tel Aviv on August 15, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
August 16, 2024, 8:43 pm
Mediators push updated Gaza truce offer, hope for deal next week, as Doha talks break
Biden says sides closer than ever to a deal after progress made in two days of talks, but Hamas rejects what it calls ‘new conditions’ from Israel; Netanyahu to meet Blinken Monday
By Agencies, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian
Foreign Minister Israel Katz, right, talks to his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne before a meeting in Jerusalem, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
August 15, 2024, 9:58 pm
French, British FMs visit Israel as it remains braced for attacks by Iran, Hezbollah
Security cabinet set to meet at IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv to review latest developments
By ToI Staff
People hold up images of five young female soldiers held hostage in Gaza, framed in the five Olympic rings during a protest in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2024. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)
August 9, 2024, 11:51 pm
Top security official tells TV network some hostages don’t have much time left
Source says it’s incorrect to think captives still in Gaza are in same fair condition as 4 rescued in June: ‘The argument that they are ”suffering but not dying” does not hold up’
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from unverified footage purporting to show Russian security forces entering a prison in the southern Rostov region to deal with a hostage situation, June 16, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 16, 2024, 2:47 pm
Russian security forces storm prison, kill Islamic State hostage takers
Inmates killed after allegedly taking captive two prison guards, who were said to be unharmed
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Swiss police officers stand next to a train, where passengers traveling from Yverdon to Sainte-Croix were earlier held hostage, in Essert-Sous-Champvent, western Switzerland on February 8, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
February 9, 2024, 1:19 pm
Axe-wielding Iranian asylum seeker killed by police in Swiss train hostage situation
Speaking in Farsi and English, hostage-taker holds 14 passengers, train conductor for four hours before authorities storm train, execute maneuver to keep him away from hostages
By Agencies
The scene of a hostage situation in the Bucharest suburb of Chiajna, May 6, 2023. (Israel Police)
May 6, 2023, 10:07 pm
Israeli police negotiation team helps Romanian law enforcement end hostage crisis
Experts assist local police forces in rescuing young girl held by father as he threatened to blow up home in Bucharest suburb
By ToI Staff
German police help a person into a police car near a shopping mall in the center of the city of Dresden, eastern Germany, on December 10, 2022, as a large-scale police operation was launched due to a suspected hostage situation. (Jens Schlueter / AFP)
December 10, 2022, 5:22 pm
German police: Suspect dead after killing mother, taking hostages in Dresden
Suspect, 40, dies during rescue of two held near Christmas market; he reportedly also fired shots near main train station
By AP
A man shouts inside the bank as he holds hostages at gunpoint in Beirut,, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. A Lebanese security official says a man armed with a shotgun has broken into a Beirut bank, holding employees hostage and threatening to set himself ablaze with gasoline unless he receives his trapped savings. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
August 11, 2022, 2:35 pm
Lebanese man holds Beirut bank staff hostage, demanding his trapped savings
The armed man is threatening to set himself ablaze unless the bank releases his money, which local media says he needs in order to pay his hospitalized father’s medical bills
By Kareem Chehayeb
For a significant amount of time after a gunman took four people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, the synagogue's livestream continued to broadcast. (Screenshot/ via JTA)
January 17, 2022, 7:32 pm
COVID-era livestreamed service meant whole world could hear Texas synagogue attack
While some attackers have tried to utilize social media, this time a congregation’s own technology meant unprecedented numbers could listen to the unfolding horror
By Shira Hanau and PHILISSA CRAMER
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker speaks to CBS on January 17, 2022. (Screen capture/YouTube)
January 17, 2022, 6:18 pm
Texas rabbi: I threw a chair at the gunman, and we headed for the door
Recalling ‘terrifying’ final moments of standoff, Charlie Cytron-Walker says he checked to see the other hostages with him were ready before springing into action, fleeing
By Jacob Magid
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson records an address to the nation at Downing Street, London, to provide an update on the booster vaccine program, December 12, 2021. (Kirsty O'Connor, Pool via AP)
January 17, 2022, 4:38 pm
UK’s Johnson calls Texas attack an ‘antisemitic act of terrorism’
Britain vows ‘full support’ for US investigators after it emerges that captor Malik Faisal Akram, who was killed in the incident, was a UK citizen
By AFP and ToI Staff
Law enforcement officials gather at Colleyville Elementary School near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
January 17, 2022, 3:31 am
Texas rabbi: Hostages managed to escape as gunman became ‘increasingly belligerent’
Congregation chairman appears to downplay antisemitic motive, calling attack ‘random act of violence,’ rabbi credits security training with giving hostages awareness when to flee
By Jacob Magid
Congregation Beth Israel hostage taker, identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram. (Courtesy)
January 16, 2022, 9:41 pm
Biden calls synagogue hostage incident an ‘act of terror’ as FBI identifies attacker
Malik Faisal Akram’s family condemns his actions, apologizes to victims, says he suffered from mental health issues; president: suspect apparently got weapon ‘on the street’
By Jacob Magid
A police vehicle patrols an intersection on January 15, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas, near Congregation Beth Israel. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images via AFP)
January 16, 2022, 4:10 pm
UK government confirms Texas synagogue attacker was a British citizen
In first public comments, synagogue Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker expresses gratitude for ‘all of the vigils and prayers and love and support,’ as well as to law enforcement officers
By Jacob Magid and Amy Spiro
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